⭐ Level 2 IBM i Systems Engineer

🚀 We're Hiring: Level 2 IBM i Systems Engineer

📍Remote
💼 Experience Level: Intermediate
🕒 Position: Full-Time | Infrastructure Engineering

We are looking for a hands-on IBM i Systems Engineer (Level 2) to join its infrastructure operations team.

In this role, you will independently administer, maintain, and troubleshoot production IBM i environments, supporting IBM Power infrastructure and customer systems. You will take ownership of routine implementations, system maintenance, backup and recovery activities, and high availability/disaster recovery operations.

This is an opportunity for an experienced IBM i professional who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges and working directly with enterprise environments.

• →Administer IBM i operating systems, including user profiles, object authority, subsystems, job queues, performance, networking, storage, and system logs.
• →Build and maintain IBM i LPARs using HMC and PowerVM.
• →Provision, map, validate, and troubleshoot SAN storage presented to IBM i systems.
• →Plan and execute IBM i PTF maintenance, OS upgrades, and post-change verification.
• →Manage BRMS backup and restore processes, troubleshoot failures, and validate recovery readiness.
• →Monitor and resolve routine HA/DR replication issues using tools such as MIMIX, iTERA, and QEDD.
• →Analyze system performance and identify potential infrastructure, application, network, or storage-related issues.
• →Support customer change requests, migrations, maintenance windows, and production incidents.
• →Maintain accurate technical documentation and ticket records.
• →Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Level 1 operations staff.

• Recent, hands-on experience administering IBM i operating systems in production environments.
• Experience managing IBM i LPARs and using HMC.
• Understanding of LPAR provisioning, virtual adapters, and storage/virtual I/O dependencies.
• Practical experience with backup and recovery operations, including BRMS.
• Experience with at least one IBM i HA/DR replication solution or equivalent disaster recovery operations.
• Strong troubleshooting, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work within approved change controls and customer security requirements.
• Excellent technical documentation and communication skills.

• Experience with MIMIX, iTERA, QEDD, or PowerHA.
• Knowledge of IBM FlashSystem, Fibre Channel SAN, VIOS, PowerVM, and FlashCopy.
• Experience with Cybernetics VTL.
• Background in IBM i OS upgrades, PTF cycles, performance analysis, and security tools.
• Experience in managed hosting or managed service provider (MSP) environments.
• Relevant IBM Power or IBM i certifications and training.

We want an engineer who can independently resolve routine infrastructure issues, execute maintenance safely, and recognize when complex technical risks require escalation.

Strong practical IBM i administration experience is essential. This position focuses on infrastructure engineering, not exclusively RPG, COBOL, or Db2 application development.

If you have hands-on IBM i experience and are ready to take on greater responsibility supporting enterprise infrastructure, we'd like to hear from you.